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Arlington County Government, VA / Most Recent / 9 May 2019
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From YouTube: Aging The Arlington Way

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Arlington County's Human Rights Commission hosted a panel on aging looking at the challenges seniors face, and offering resources to maintain and enhance their quality of life.

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The event today is an event called ageing. The Arlington way, looking at what it's like to grow older in Arlington, how people who are aging in our county can have access to benefits that help them age here. What we know is that most seniors, no matter what the community would prefer to age in place, meaning they don't want to be relegated to a space away from the home they've been living in maybe some.

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Housing has to be both appropriate and affordable. We can't have one without the other, so whether it means a single-family home or we're talking about a condo or assistive living or Community Retirement Center. We need to have these options.

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The transport is a very important piece because we may have the Arlington mill center. Here. We have a variety of bus routes. This is one Center, but just to get to the center may be a challenge for as we get older or for people that we all have always had a physical limitation, but there are ways of doing it.

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We.

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Are keeping an eye on what are all the possibilities to have a healthy aging? A healthy aging means we're gonna have to not only what we mostly think of health as physical health, there's mental health and there's also the social engagement piece. I.

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Think, as an individual we can do is let the county know what we need. The more you speak up. The more can be addressed because these avenues, Aging in Arlington County, is full of healthy options. Choices, there's still challenges with transportation, there's still challenges with housing. Getting the information, we're gonna, be able to find those solutions, and the thing is to look to the county and see how I can get more information and see if the county actually provides that service.

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You.